Cinematic Era: 1952 Vintage

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Shows how to use and care for crayons and some of the crayon techniques. Explains creative drawing, poster making, imprinting a design on cloth and other crafts.

Experiments on the crystallization of various inorganic substances: crystallization from solution, crystallization from melt and vapour phase, mixed crystal formation, oriented growth, change from a metastable into a stable phase.

Short film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Directed by Hsu Hsiao-ping.

A circus clown turns out to be a quite a ladies' man in this charming short story from the master of stag films, Cecil B. De Mézig. This is most likely the first stag film made in color, or more precisely in pornocolor as it is introduced at its very start. This was long before color became the norm in stag films in the late 60s.

Lupa Daratan / Delirious / L. Krishnan/ Malay Film Productions

The story is about a comedian who arrives in Istanbul from the United States to bring artists, and his adventures with casino stars.

Betty Page dances peppily and gracefully.

Billed as the first Ukrainian art film in colour to be produced in Canada, the film received mixed reviews from the Ukrainian press despite its folksy, mass appeal. The transfer onto film of a staged musical production without fuly understanding the specific demands of the film medium is reportedly one of the drawbacks.

A Singaporen movie directed by B. S. Rajhans in 1952

A documentary about G.V. Brooks Community School at Newnham, Tasmania.

Fan of the ingenious little monkey will not be disappointed as he embarks on a wild series of adventures in a traveling circus.

Documentary on the town of Arecibo that presents a historical background and its economic and social development to this date.

An early film by Jordan Belson from 1952. "[Belson's] early films animated real objects (pavements in Bop Scotch [1952]) and scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images (Mandala [1953]). Belson subsequently withdrew these films from circulation as imperfect and primitive, but they already reflect his refined plastic sensibility, fine color sense, and superb sense of dynamic structure. They also foreshadow his more accomplished expressions of mystical concepts, Bop Scotch seeming to reveal a hidden soul and life-force in "inanimate" objects."

A short diploma film based on a fairy tale by Yemelian Bukov and directed by Sergei Parajanov. The film was made in 1952, since that moment it was considered to be lost, but finally it was found in VGIK in 2025.

The punishing fist of justice came down hard on the dark fingers of a gang of food stamp forgers who listened to the plague-ridden rhetoric of Wall Street banks and wanted to save their decaying capitalist world through contagion and war. The propagandistic montage of the trial fights for the idea of a better and happier socialist world, for which people were executed.

A brief history of paper followed by a look at the manufacturing process in a paper mill in Markinch, Scotland.

One man demonstrates the wrong way of doing domestic chores. With Mr. Pastry.

Short by Heinz Sielmann.

Rowing on the estuary, driving onto the beach for a quick dash into the waves and making friends with the local felines - this wonderful record of a family seaside holiday in Borth-y-Gest, near Porthmadog on the edge of Snowdonia, has it all. Shot by prolific amateur filmmaker Harold Street, the abrupt ending and the placement of an end title card in the middle suggests this isn't his finished version - but the film nonetheless shows off a cinematic eye for framing and a sophisticated sense of narrative.

A 50's Chinese film that reflects the post-war society, expresses idealism and pleads to return to the homeland.

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saëns, and Shoshtakovich, and replete with rapidly mutating geometries, Bute’s filmmaking is at once formally rigorous and energetically high-spirited, like a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies. In the late 1940s, Lewis Jacobs observed that Bute’s films were “composed upon mathematical formulae depicting in ever-changing lights and shadows, growing lines and forms, deepening colors and tones, the tumbling, racing impressions evoked by the musical accompaniment.” Bute herself wrote that she sought to “bring to the eyes a combination of visual forms unfolding along with the thematic development and rhythmic cadences of music.”

Dangerous Dan the desperado enters the barbershop run by Hackle and Jackle with guns blazing, and that is his highlight as the Magpies use their barber equipment to teach him a lesson and drive him crazy.

Duke Ellington Orchestra performs "Mood Indigo" for Snader Telescriptions.

Reflection on myths.

Lost Persian film.

An African, a Yugoslav, an American and a Scandinavian, each gives his own views on the work of building railways in Yugoslavia.

Older church art and biblical texts describe the life of Jesus from birth to death and resurrection.

A day in the life of the famous Coney Island Amusement Park in Brooklyn, NY.

Jean's mother plans a surprise party for Jean on her sixth birthday. While Jean and Frank are on an errand, Jean's friends come, hide and surprise her when she gets back.

Before direct dial, long distance calls were a rarity.

Folk comedy in which the import/exportbusiness of Jef Dijckman is getting in dire straits ... .

Out of the laughter and tears of our forgotten millions comes the Great Motion Picture of Our Time.

The initial stages of the construction of an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain, Kent, and its impact on the local farming community.

Tells the tale of Aladdin a young naughty boy with brains. One day a sorcerrer came up to him and admitted that he was his father. He brought Aladdin into a cave to accompany him in getting a lamp in the cave. Aladdin just followed his orders. As he got hold of the lamp he was hypnotized by it and couldn't get his eyes off of it. As the sorcerrer screamed to Aladdin to pass him the light Aladdin resisted and he was buried in the cave as the cave came down on him. To Aladdin's surprise there was a Genie in the lamp and requested his wishes to return home. Aladdin had three wishes to be made. What will his three wishes be?

Industrial film demonstrating methods of material handling using electrically-driven equipment. Framed in a fictional scenario of businessmen discussing industrial modernisation.

KTLA makes the first telecast of an atomic bomb detonation. Klaus Landsberg led the engineering feat on short notice that established microwave links that had previously been considered impossible with existing technology. The station fed the coverage to the nation. The broadcast, fed to all three networks, was also notable in that it was fed via a 140 mile link - the longest ever attempted at that time.

This film is a vintage docudrama about the American pioneers (led by Daniel Boone in 1773) heading westward into the new frontier, crossing the Appalachian Mountains into what would later be Kentucky. The film explains the types of people, modes of transportation and various physical dangers in the period of early American expansion.

This experimental short film was made as part of a film workshop at the University of Munich and premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1952. The plot focuses on a young painter who, absorbed in his own thoughts, is unable to communicate with those around him.